On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 4:16:16 PM UTC+1, gggg gggg wrote:
On Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 4:16:03 AM UTC-8, Kerrison wrote:
I've just been listening to Rob Cowan's "CD Masters" show on BBC Radio
3 (which can also be heard over the internet) and he played a superb
1954 New York Philharmonic LP of Kostelanetz conducting his own Suite
from Tchaikovksy's "Queen of Spades". Notwithstanding the title of
Cowan's show, this has never been on CD (apart from a 'private'
release available via Theo van der Burg's website:
www.med.hro.nl/burtw/) but it ought to be: the arrangement and the
playing are terrific. Let's hope the powers at Sony Classical dig out
this and other Kostelanetz recordings for reissue. He was a first-rate conductor and that "Queen of Spades" LP showed he could produce
results which equalled anything Lenny ever did with the NYPO.
KS
"Opera Without Words":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X4C4A4zJVY&list=PLYxa9A1fbbR-XxulGIGOzXzHKWR8Srkol
Fancy this thread popping up from 17 years ago. Since then of course there have been masses of Kostelanetz uploads on YouTube. These include a couple of excerpts from a fuzzy 1961 TV broadcast with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Here he is in the "
Polovtsian Dances" with the CSO being rather rushed off its feet. I suspect that AK wanted to make sure the programme didn't over-run its allotted time in the TV schedules ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5u8Yg9ylk
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